The Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs of the Old and New-Testament ‎#315

315. How beautiful thy feet with shoes

1 How beautiful thy feet with shoes,
O prince's daughter stand!
Thy thighs their joints like jewels are
Works of a skilful hand.
2 Thy navel like a goblet cup
Of liquor full and round:
Thy belly like an heap of wheat
About with lillies crown'd.

3 Thy two fair breasts are like two roes,
That young and twinlins be.
4 Thy neck is also like unto
A tow'r of ivory.
Thine eyes like Heshbon's fish pools are,
Beth-rahbim's entrance by:
Thy nose as tow'r of Lebanon
That doth Damascus eye.

5 Thine head on thee like Carmel is
Hair of thy head likewise
Like purple is; the king is held
Within the galleries.

6 How fair and delicate art thou,
love for pleasancy?
7 This stature thine is like the palm,
Thy breasts as clusters be.

8 I said I'll to the palm ascend,
Its boughs then seize I will.
Like to vine-clusters are thy breasts,
Thy nose as apples smell.
9 Like the best wine thy palate is,
Which to my love runs sweet.
Causing the lips to utter speech
Ev'n theirs who are asleep.

10 I am my love's, and his desire
Is placed me upon.
11 Come my beloved, let us forth
Into the field be gone:
Let's lodge within the villages.
12 Let us get up betime
Unto the vineyards, let us see
If flourish doth the vine:

If that the tender grapes appear,
The pomegranates also,
If that they bud, and there my loves.
1 will on thee bestow.

13 The mandrakes give a smell and at
Our gates all sweet fruits be:
Both new and old, O my belov'd,
Which I have stor'd for thee.

Text Information

• First Line: How beautiful thy feet with shoes
• Publication Date: 1742
• Notes: Now Public Domain.

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